[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 157 (Wednesday, November 14, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H8137]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                       PROVIDE JOBS, NOT WELFARE

  (Mr. TOOMEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TOOMEY. Mr. Speaker, it is true; there are hundreds, there are 
thousands, of good and decent people who are losing their jobs across 
the Lehigh Valley that I represent, certainly across Pennsylvania and 
across America. These losses are hitting our families, our neighbors, 
our friends. No one is immune to this risk.
  The fact is, the people that I represent do not want to know how long 
they can stay out of work; they want to know how quickly they can get 
back to work. And it is our responsibility to have policy that helps to 
create an environment of opportunity so they can get back to work, 
because that is what they want, and that means lowering the huge tax 
barrier that stands between employers and employees, creating that 
opportunity to create those new jobs.
  In this House we passed an economic stimulus bill that moves in that 
direction of creating more job opportunities, but the Democratic 
majority leader in the other chamber refuses to bring a bill to the 
floor. That chamber insists on dickering and dithering and bickering 
and political squabbling. They are talking about a so-called stimulus 
bill that will do nothing but line the pork-barrel politics and try to 
help out their own political futures and do nothing for creating jobs.
  It is long past time to have that type of squabbling. It time to 
lower the tax barrier and give people the opportunity to get back to 
work.

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